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If you’re using MDS and DQS with the Excel Integration you may get an error when trying to use the “Match Data” feature that uses DQS in order to help to identify duplicate data in your data set.
The error is quite obscure and you have to enable WCF error reporting in order to have the error details and you’ll discover that they are related to ...

I’ve been playing with Master Data Services quite a lot in those last days and I’m also monitoring the web for all available resources on it.
Today I’ve found this freshly released sample available on MSDN Code Gallery:
SQL Server Master Data Services Employee Sample Model
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SSMDSEmployeeSample
This sample ...

I’m at SQLBits 5 today and I’ve just come out of Ian Marriott’s session where he talked about the forthcoming Master Data Services. Here’s a low-quality (sorry) photo of the screen that MDS practitioners and users are going to become very familiar with, the home screen of MDS’ web interface: My first impressions are that this is a reskinned ...

Just a short post to make people aware that Master Data Services (MDS), the forthcoming Master Data Management solution in SQL Server 2008 R2, is available for x64 architectures only. Sergei Ivanov from the MDS explains the reasons for this at Where is MDS?: Understand the motivations, folks. Instead of dispersing resources on testing and ...